On January 31, the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) will host its first GEN Exchange: Lessons on Startup Community Building – an event series for entrepreneurship ecosystem leaders to share their stories and experiences leading Startup Huddle, a chapter-based startup community building program tried and tested in over 100 cities around the globe. As part of GEN's #RoadtoGEC programming, Lessons in Startup Community Building will explore a key topic of the Global Entrepreneurship Congress – resetting a new generation of ecosystems – using the Startup Huddle model.
This event will feature Ash Barlow, Executive Director at The Station and Sarah Dhafir, Program Specialist at The Station - both local organizers for Startup Huddle Iraq. Barlow and Dhafir will join GEN's Pauly Suchy to look at the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Iraq, the launch and growth of Startup Huddle in Baghdad and Mosul, and the impact of Startup Huddle on founders in Iraq and the ecosystem at large.
About Startup Huddle
Run by the Global Entrepreneurship Network in partnership with local organisers, Startup Huddle is a program designed to help one entrepreneur at a time while strengthening the local ecosystem. Entrepreneurs discover challenges to the solutions they face through purposeful engagement with a broad array of voices from their local community. Currently, there are local Startup Huddle chapters in more than 50 cities around the world. For more information, visit www.startuphuddle.co.